Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Shadow embodies much of what other species detest in the Tabaxis. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Shadow hails from a village terrorized by giants. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against giants; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Aquamarine (700 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her silver hair is thinning but still full. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born in the north. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 500 gp. Golden pearl (40 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has wavy silver hair. His eyes are silver.

Personality: Cairn hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He uses divination through singing.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Animal Trainer. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Cairn was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: He wants revenge against giants; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1300 gp. Golden pearl (90 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and is typically in his Healer uniform. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Mindartis wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Warrior, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To be a Merchant again; and expand his business

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Job, Religious, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1300 gp. Black pearl (1000 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp).